I don't remember my very first, but I remember my first big fish like yesterday. I was 10, camping with my dad and some friends in FL. The water was brackish but there were more LMB's than anything else. I don't remember the rod other than it being 14lb test and the bait was a rubber worm. I was in the back of the canoe and after a few ours I decided to take a rest. I figured I'd just troll to have a line in the water as my dads friend fished on the bow. I put my rod down and the second I open a can of coke the rod get slammed. We proceeded to get towed around backwards for what seemed like forever. I finally got the fish along side and we struggled to get her onboard without rolling the canoe. Once we got it in, it was the biggest snook either of us had ever seen. He had a yard stick to measure fish and it was a yard stick and a half. He said it had to be over 50lbs... Lucky for her season was closed and back she went. I'll never forget it!

Big fish wants pics so here's my oldest son with his first ever fish. It was a few days before his 2nd birthday :)
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Bad Jack the Sugar bowl has been listed on the official maps of Boston Harbor as Heart Island.
At one time a covered bridge went out to the Island. When the hurricane of 1938 damaged the covered bridge that every one fished from before making a road out to it and building the small park with the roof. mackerel was one of the prime species once fished for from this covered bridge

The Sugar bowl and Castle Island became connected with a breakwater with two spillways to keep the sand sharks from invading the beach at City Point.

This location still holds some very good fishing when ever the mackerel leave this nursery area.

My first fish was the fish that sits upon the State house. The golden cod once the stable of Cape Cod bay has long vanished from these waters.

I was 7 years of age and it was caught from a double decker party boat out of Atlantic Avenue on a tar hand line where the hook was attached to the large weight. The name of the boat at this time eludes me.

took some time to remember
 

My first big noteworthy striper
caught in Mattapoisett i'd say in 65

i was very much a green horn when it came to
cleaning fish because i was basically a catch and release guy

i'd say this fish was 32-34 inches and fairly fat
i was absolutely clueless on how to clean it
and thought at the time you had to de-scale them first
and in trying to do so i accidentically flipped a bass scale
right into my eye like a contact lens.

i couldn't get it out because it was so slimey and ran for the bathroom sink
to flush it out. it took forever because it was like glued to my eyeball and would not budge.

my eye got seriously messed up from that ...so much so
that i had a fish cutter professional give me lessons.

My First Fish ever was a kiver caught on a banana with a 202

First fish ever? A Flounder in Pelham Bay, maybe 1968 0r 1969. My first bass? Trolling off of Coney Island in the Fall of 1977.